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Flex Top Bar lets you add a configurable notification/announcement bar to the top or bottom of your site.
Key features
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<li>Display a bar at the top or bottom of the site.</li>
<li>Edit the message with a WYSIWYG editor (text, links, formatting, media).</li>
<li>Build the bar layout using columns (text, social links, contact, icons, countdown timer, and more).</li>
<li>Add an icon column with optional short text—use bundled icons or upload your own (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, or SVG).</li>
<li>Add a countdown timer column to count down to an end date/time or up from a start date/time, with timezone support and configurable display styles.</li>
<li>Schedule when a bar is visible with optional start and end date/time; configure times in your chosen timezone, and on the front end the bar is shown to each visitor according to their browser timezone.</li>
<li>Customize background color and optional border/frame color.</li>
<li>Changes are saved from the settings screen and you can publish when ready.</li>
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<h3>Privacy</h3>
Flex Top Bar is not designed to collect personal data from your site visitors, and it does not, on its own, transmit visitor personal data to the plugin author.
The Freemius SDK is bundled with the plugin and active (in the free or Pro version) for licensing, payments, updates, support, and abuse prevention. Freemius may display an opt-in consent notice in the WordPress admin (where applicable). If enabled/consented, Freemius may process data related to the license/installation (for example: license identifiers, the site domain/URL, IP address, and technical details about the WordPress environment such as versions and active plugins).
Freemius provides details in their privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
<h3>License & Disclaimer</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPLv2 or later). If anything in this section could be interpreted as limiting rights granted under the GPL, the GPL takes precedence.
The plugin is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” without warranties of any kind. You are responsible for testing in a staging environment, keeping backups, and ensuring your site’s security and compliance. The plugin author is not responsible for data loss, downtime, or incompatibilities with WordPress versions, themes, other plugins, or third-party services.
More detailed EULA and disclaimer texts are included in the plugin package under <code>assets/doc/</code>.
<h3>Source code (uncompressed) and build instructions</h3>
The JavaScript/CSS shipped in this plugin is built (bundled/minified) from human-readable source code.
Source repository (public): https://github.com/bigmikesolutions/flex-top-bar
Primary plugin source location: https://github.com/bigmikesolutions/flex-top-bar/tree/main/plugins/flex-top-bar
To rebuild the distributed assets locally:
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<li>From the repo root, install dependencies: <code>npm install</code></li>
<li>Build the plugin assets: <code>npm run build:flex-top-bar</code></li>
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